The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 45

All around, too, lay vast quantities of the costliest merchandise, and treasures were heaped in every cranny of the rocks, but all these things only added to the desolation of the scene.

What happens: lay, heap, add, desolate · To what, where: vast quantities, treasures, cranny, things, scene

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	ADV	_	2 around	advmod
2	around	around	ADV	_	6 lay	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 around	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 around	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 around	punct
6	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 quantities	amod
8	quantities	quantity	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lay	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 merchandise	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 merchandise	det
11	costliest	costly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 merchandise	amod
12	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 quantities	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heaped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heaped	cc
15	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heaped	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heaped	aux:pass
17	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lay	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 cranny	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 cranny	det
20	cranny	cranny	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heaped	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 rocks	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rocks	det
23	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cranny	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 added	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 added	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 things	det:predet
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 things	det
28	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 added	nsubj:pass
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 added	advmod
30	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lay	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 desolation	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 desolation	det
33	desolation	desolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 added	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 scene	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 scene	det
36	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 desolation	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	present	vast quantities of the costliest merchandise		around property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Result
2	heap	past · passive	treasures	every cranny of the rocks		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cranny=Destination
3	add speech: assert	participle · passive	all things		to the desolation of the scene	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to desolation=Co-Patient
4	desolate		the scene			nom desolation «state transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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